[Air-l] CFP- HICSS-40 - Digital DIvide Minitrack

[Karine Barzilai-Nahon]

Sorry for cross-posting

CALL FOR PAPERS for the Digital Divide minitrack
Forty Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS-40)
January 3-6, 2007
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island

Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu 

Digital divide plays an important role in last years' discourse in
theory and practice as well. Starting in the 90's by focusing on
infrastructures divides between the 'have' and 'have-not' and continuing
in the following years to other dimensions of the divide such as skill,
usage, governmental and communal support and more...

The mini-track calls for papers that study the digital divide in
different levels, methods and perspectives. Levels of the digital divide
such as: international, national, local, sector, communal, and also
individual.

Subjects related to the digital divide that are in the scope of this
mini-track but not limited to:
Socio-demographic factors- gender, age, education, income, ethnic
diversity, race diversity, language diversity, religiosity 
Social and governmental support - for example the use of supportive
initiatives, policy and applications to bridge the gap, or how society
and communities impact e-Inclusion
Conceptualization and theory of digital divide 
Comparative and local analysis of policy
Use - skills, frequency and time, locus, autonomy of use, what do users
do online and for what purpose 
Access and technology - infrastructure factors
Affordability
Accessibility focusing mainly in populations with special needs
Measurements index - e-readiness, DiDix and more

MINITRACK CHAIR:

Karine Barzilai-Nahon
Assistant Professor
The Information School
University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840
Seattle, WA 98195-2840, Tel- (206) 685-6668
Email - karineb at u.washington.edu 
Website -  www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb 


IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Abstract 	Authors may contact Minitrack Chair for guidance and
indication of appropriate   content at anytime.
June 15	Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following
Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu).
Papers undergo a double-blind review. 
August 15	Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the
Peer Review    System.
September 15	Authors submit Final Version of papers to the Peer
Review System web site.  


The Digital Divide minitrack is part of the Digital Media: Content and
Communication Track Chaired by Michael Shepherd (shepherd at cs.dal.ca)



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Karine Barzilai-Nahon
Assistant Professor
The Information School
University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840
Seattle, WA 98195-2840
(206) 685-6668, http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb